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Title: Tabula
Publication: [London :: [Enprynted by one some tyme scole mayster of saynt Albons, vppon whoos soule god haue mercy. Amen. And newely in the yere of our lorde god. M.CCCCC.ii. Enprynted in fleete strete in [the] sygne of the sone. By me Wynkyn de Worde,; [1502]]
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¶Hic incipit Fructus tempor.

BYcause of this bookes made / to tell what tyme of ony thynge notable was. Therfore y^• begyn∣nynge of all tymes shor∣tly shall be touched. For the whiche after doctours it is to be kno¦wen / y^• foure thynges were made fyrste / & in one tyme / & of one age. That is to wyte / the heuen Imperyall / angels natu¦re / the matere of the foure elementes / & tyme. And that doctours calle / the wer∣ke of the creacion / the whiche was made afore ony daye or nyght / of the myghty power of god. And was made of no thȳ¦ge. ¶Thenne after foloweth the werke of the diuysyon / the whiche was made in thre of the fyrste dayes / in whiche is shewed the hyghe wysedom of the ma∣ker. ¶Thenne after foloweth y^• arayen¦ge of this werke in the whiche is shewed the goodnes of the creature / the whiche was made .iij. of the nexte dayes folo∣wynge (Vt patʐ clare in textu gen̄. priu••) ¶The fyrste day god made / & dyuyded the lyght from the derkenesse. ¶The se¦conde daye god made / and ordeyned the fyrmament / & dyuyded the water from the water. ¶The thyrde day god made in the whiche he gadred the waters in to one place / & y^e erthe tho apperid. ¶The fourth daye god made / in the whiche he ordeyned the sonne / the mone / & the ster¦res & put them in y^e fyrmament. ¶The fyfth daye god made / in the whiche he ordeyned fysshes & foules / & grete wha∣les in the water. ¶The sixt day god or deyned / in the whiche he made beest and man. ¶The seuenth daye god made / & in that daye he rested of all werkes that he had ordeyned / not as in werkyng be∣y••ge wery / but he sessid to make mo ne∣we creatures (Vide plura ge•• .i.)

BE it knowe / that Adam the fyr∣ste man / of whome it is wryten in this fyrst aege next folowynge / lyued .ix. hondred yere and .xxx. And he ga••e .xxxij. sones / & as many doughters.